I feel like a liberal dose of smash cuts and/or jump cuts in the editing room could have whittled this down to a half hour running time, and spared audiences much of the obsessive/compulsive cringe that permeates the production. As a collector that pre-dates Blockbuster Video, Mom and Pop video stores, and even the concept of video rentals themselves (you had to BUY a movie if you wanted it at the outset, and they were rarely cheap), I can relate…
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Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson 2008
As I sat down to mull over my thoughts on this two hour documentary on the late Gonzo journalist/counterculture god, Hunter Thompson, I was instantly bedeviled by a perturbing question, posed by my own superego, rendered even more critical than usual by hours of self-medication leading up to it.
Have I done my best to adequately self-medicate prior to this wild spectacle of excess, gunpowder, and hallucinogenic psychobabble I was about to bear witness to?
Sure, I smoked a pack…
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The Heroin Busters 1977
Fabio Testi (The Big Racket, Contraband) excels here as a fast n' loose undercover cop, questionable denim fashions by Serpico complete with rainbow rope belt and mangy knee-high hooker boots (!), traversing the sleazy underbelly of the global vein candy trade and joining forces with a punchy Interpol agent (David Hemmings, of Deep Red fame) to dismantle an Italian tar smuggling ring. Enzo G. (High Crime, House by the Edge of the Lake) pulls out all the stops with a…
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Almost Human 1974
In front of Umberto's lensy (get it? Sorry.) for the first time to play uber-scuz Giulio Sacchi in his 1974 Eurocrime effort, Milano odia: la polizia non può sparare, Cuban spaghetti western vet Tomas Milian (Beatrice Cenci, Compañeros) gives so engrossing a turn as a petty hoodlum-cum-machine gun wielding sociopath, that the director and actor would pair up five more times in the years to come: 1975's Syndicate Sadists, The Tough Ones (1976), The Cynic, the Rat, and the Fist…
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Cemetery Man 1994
The perfect combination of art and exploitation, amazing cinematography and atmosphere, Soavi's masterpiece transcends the horror genre, the perfect mix of dark humor, extreme gore, sexuality, and romance. It almost doesn't fit into any category, and herein lies the film's strength. It is championed by Romero-philes and Godard-ites alike. Soavi, who labored as an assistant director/actor in the films of Argento, Bava, Fulci, et al, for years, shows his true mettle with this entry which came at a time when…
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Martyrs 2008
Lucie (Mylène Jampanoi) barely escaped a slaughterhouse where she endured barbaric torture as a child. After placement in an orphanage, she is befriended by Anna (Morjana Alaoui), who helps her cope with nightmarish hallucinations of psychologically manifested visions of a torture victim she was unable to set free upon escape and permanent mental scars.
As an adult, she barges into a family's home during breakfast with a loaded shotgun, believing she's finally tracked down the sadists responsible for her lifelong…Translated from by
